Category: Geekery
So in addition to anthropomorphizing her blog, Beth also likes to anthropomorphize her belongings ((see: Marla, Hermione, Zaphod Beeblebrox the Car, Chloe, and Bellatrix)). Her fancy dancy new “In-animate” stickers that she got for Christmas help with this. Hole punching things is so much more fun now, as it feels like the hungry hole punch […]
FourSquare, for those who don’t know, is a sort of urban game where you use your iPhone or Blackberry to “check in” to locations that you go to and then get credited points that don’t mean anything. If you are the person who “checks in” to a given location the most often (or the most […]
I spent much of Saturday updating my finances in wesabe. I wanted to see where I’d spent my money and, ultimately, where I could save more. I’m notoriously cheap a pretty good saver – basically, I continue to live like a starving student ((e.g., cheap basement suite, almost all clothing comes from thrift stores, most […]
i⋅ro⋅ny –noun “a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results when enlivened by ‘perverse appropriateness’.” Props to The Bloggess, on whose site I saw this.
And one final round-up for the year end. My nerd stats! 2008 2009 % change Blog postings: 423 357 -16% Tweets: 2,227 1,815 ((at the time of writing this blog posting and including the tweet that will result from me blogging this)) -19% Visits to my blog in 2008 32,410 45,153((at the time of writing […]
I’ve decided to go totally cliché this year. I’m talking New Year’s resolutions and swearing that I’ll get back to exercising and eating well and losing that 15 lbs that’s been plauguing me. So, keeping with my transformation into a cliché, I figure the week after Christmas is a good time to take stock. Like […]
Well, so much for the whole blogging-every-day-in-December thing! But I assure you, I had various good reasons for forgetting. You may choose one or more of the following excuses: it’s too cold outside my shiny Christmas tree distracted me cute baby distracted me cute baby trying to knock over my Christmas tree distracted me cat […]
You know there’s something wrong right away when the description includes both “free” and “for less than a cup of coffee.” While searching for free iPhone apps ((Almost all of the apps I have are free because I’m cheap frugal awesome like that)) the other day, I came across this one: Free books? For only […]
Dear Beth Simpson Who Is Going to Maui Next Week, I know that you think the Gmail address “beth.simpson” is yours, but it really, really is not. I know this because that is *my* email account and I’ve had it since September 4, 2004. You see, before I got divorced my last name was Simpson […]